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![Startup Framework: Website Builder, Bootstrap Themes and More]()
Startup Framework: Website Builder, Bootstrap Themes and More
One conclusion that I've come to when evaluating my skills is that I'm not a designer. Each time I redesign this blog, I identify a few sites I like and then meld them together. Of course that means I end up with UI components that...
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Detecting CSS Animation Completion with JavaScript
One fact of web development life in 2014 that's been difficult for me to admit is that the traditional JavaScript toolkit is mostly dead. For years we relied on them for almost everything but now that JavaScript and CSS has caught up with what we need...
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Retrieve Twitter and Facebook Counts with JSONP
I've been annoyed that many popular APIs have moved to require authentication in order to retrieve information. If I can browse a page and get said information, why can't I simply pull it with some simple code and skip the authentication bit? I had thought that...
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JavaScript FrameBuster Snippet
Oftentimes you want to make sure your site isn't being IFRAME'd. Sometimes it's for security reasons, other times it's so your site's content isn't being skimmed else, and other times it's...oh, who cares, you just want to do it. Here's a short way to escape frames: Uglify...
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Tweet For Code #2
You don't need a thousand lines of code to make a big difference in any coding language. Oftentimes it's quite the opposite: a few tiny code snippets can do a world of good and accomplish big things. I asked my Twitter followers to tweet to me their...
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Link HREFLANG
If you work on a website that is offered in more than one language, you deserve a medal. The need to localize almost everything is tough and sometimes feels very limiting. No adding text to imagery, never knowing how different translation will affect layout, maintaining different...
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A Good Free Tool for Identifying Fonts
Great designers understand that, while images may speak a thousand words and the first bridge towards the audience is that of a visually engaging design, content is essential and must therefore make a great impression, too. Hence, most professionals have a keen eye for beautifully written...
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3 Solutions for Supporting Internet Explorer
In the beginning, Internet Explorer was the progressive browser. After a period of inactivity, Internet Explorer became the bane of our existence. Microsoft has since recommitted to their browser but the fact remains that sometimes modern Internet Explorer is lagging just a bit behind WebKit-based browsers and...
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Style External Links with CSS
Styling external links is a common practice on most informational sites likes Wikipedia. As a user, it's nice to know when you're being sent to another resource. Many sites do the external links check on the server side, adding a `rel=external` attribute value or `external` class...
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JavaScript Debounce Function
One of the biggest mistakes I see when looking to optimize existing code is the absence of the debounce function. If your web app uses JavaScript to accomplish taxing tasks, a debounce function is essential to ensuring a given task doesn't fire so often that it...
